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An Archaeological Dig, Without Leaving Home
It occurred to me over the past year that my children will never remove the approximately 100 large boxes stored in my attic. They have good reasons, mostly consisting of “We have no place for it.” I even resorted to saying “When I die, all you will do is throw everything out in the trash […]
Supermensch
June 18, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
After having planned either an in depth analysis of the current armed insurrection in Syria or the IRS targeting certain groups here at home, this writer casually picked up her current copy of AARP Magazine and was rendered (almost) speechless to discover little known facts about Superman. Item Number 4 should have not only been […]
How to Make Menopause Disappear
June 14, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Mankind has pondered several unanswerable questions for exactly as long as it has been on the planet. We search for the meaning of life. We wonder if there is life after death. . And we ask, “Who Put The Bop In The Bop Shoo Bop?” Right up there with all the others is the mystery […]
My Husband Gave Me A Complex for Our Anniversary: A Guest Post by Lisa Tognola
May 31, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Life in the Boomer Lane has a couple reasons she likes New Jersey. One is that she spent her high school and college years cavorting in Atlantic City (It is entirely possible to sleep three people in a motel bathroom). The other is Lisa Tognola, the author of Main Street Musings. Read her post and […]
What Makes You Happy?
May 24, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
A couple weeks ago, HuffPost published an article which revealed that The American Express Company, while selling people on the fantasy of what they (American Express) has determined to be blissfully happy lives, has also, behind the scenes, been tracking data since the 1980s on what makes Americans happy in reality. This got Life in […]
How to Collect Social Security for 55 Years
May 17, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
The cover of the May issue of National Geographic shows a baby with the caption, “This Baby Will Live to be 120.” Inside the magazine is the article, titled “On Beyond 100.” Before diving headfirst into the article, Life in the Boomer Lane suspected it would be about the continuing rampant production of old people […]
Latest Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Throw Pillow
April 28, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Having had such a swell time with my recent trip to the ER, I decided to arrange for another life threatening adventure. Since I had been caring for my one-and-a-half year old and three-and-a-half year old grandsons, all scary and deadly items had been safely stored away. So I had to get creative. Calling upon […]
Getting Found by Getting Lost
April 25, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
Just in case Life in the Boomer Lane hasn’t mentioned it enough, her entire life has been impacted by her inability to get from point A to point B without the aid of a brain transplant. The history of her dysfunction has resulted in, among other things, 1. The dissolution of her first marriage 2. […]
Turning A Life-Threatening Emergency into Something Bad
April 11, 2013 by Life in the Boomer Lane
The other night, Life in the Boomer Lane came perilously close to joining her ancestors in the Big Shtetl in the Sky. The events were as follows: While having a conversation with her daughter, a virus and annoying cough she has been dealing with all week triggers a severe asthmatic reaction, resulting in LBL’s inability […]
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